04327cam a2200637Mi 4500 ocn823722121 OCoLC 20200709055721.0 m d cr |n||||||||| 130109s2010 xx ob 001 0 eng d 2010671744 EBLCP eng pn EBLCP OCLCQ N$T YDXCP OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCF OCLCQ OCLCE E7B IDEBK NLE OCLCQ LOA IDK COCUF K6U PIFAG FVL KAT COO 764508879 980950508 9781443825283 (electronic bk.) 144382528X (electronic bk.) 144382495X 9781443824958 523456 (N$T) (OCoLC)823722121 (OCoLC)764508879 (OCoLC)980950508 a-cc--- BL467 .L35 2010eb REL 024000 bisacsh 299.511213 MAIN Lakos, William. Chinese ancestor worship : a practice and ritual oriented approach to understanding Chinese culture / by William Lakos. Practice and ritual oriented approach to understanding Chinese culture Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2010. 1 online resource (159 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier data file rda Introduction : a new approach to understanding Chinese culture -- Watching the ancestors -- Mind-ing the ancestors -- Living with the ancestors : filial piety -- Two concepts of ritual and two understandings of li -- Challenging the master narrative : Confucianism-as-Chinese-culture -- Conclusion and consequences. This book is a new approach to how we in the West understand China and Chinese culture. It challenges the master narrative of Confucianism and shows that ancestor worship has underpinned Chinese culture in many influential and vital ways and provides a nuanced and more efficacious paradigm through which Chinese culture may be viewed. It is an exposition and analysis of Chinese ancestor worship and its correlations, especially filial piety and ritual, and it shows the intrinsic importance of ancestor worship to Chinese culture. By using a practice theory--ritual--and communication theory approach this work highlights the relationship between the rituals of ancestor worship and their meaning within Chinese culture. In emphasizing the efficacy of ritual to cultural meaning it also questions and compares the master narrative of Confucianism in its role as the prime cultural symbol and paradigm of Chinese culture. China and Chinese culture is conventionally understood by the West through the paradigm and its articulated discourse of Confucianism. In order to ameliorate and overcome the epistemological problematic of a cross-cultural understanding of China, a new approach to the understanding of China and Chinese culture is proposed. The thesis approach is 'meta-disciplinary' and multi-viewed, and draws on a range of evidence and theories which focus on the problematic of 'cross-cultural understanding'--Publisher. Print version record. Includes bibliographical references and index. Master record variable field(s) change: 050 Ancestor worship China. Religion and culture China. RELIGION Eastern. bisacsh Ancestor worship. fast (OCoLC)fst00808464 Religion and culture. fast (OCoLC)fst01093823 China. fast (OCoLC)fst01206073 Electronic books. Electronic books. local Print version: Lakos, William. Chinese Ancestor Worship : A Practice and Ritual Oriented Approach to Understanding Chinese Culture. Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, ©2010 9781443824958 EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=523456 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL1106867 ebrary EBRY ebr10642873 EBSCOhost EBSC 523456 Ingram Digital eBook Collection IDEB cis25645213 YBP Library Services YANK 9969446 92 N$T 52417 52417